TÁRKI Social Research Inc. is an independent, employee-owned research organisation that specialises in policy research in the fields of social policy and the social consequences of economic policies. This includes related data-collection, archiving and statistical activities. We recently increased our involvement in the areas of strategic market research and health policy analysis. In addition, we regularly contribute to basic research, in the areas of social stratification and inequality, and to the methodology of empirical social research.

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Péter Róbert
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International Social Survey Programme - ISSP

TÁRKI has been involved in an international comparative programme (International Social Survey Programme, ISSP) since 1986. As part of this research, a questionnaire (designed to take about half an hour to complete) is translated word for word. The survey was originally carried out in five or six countries, but latterly more than 40 countries have participated, including European countries, the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Israel, South Africa and some Latin American countries. The ISSP's topics change from year to year, but essentially it compares international public opinions and attitudes. So far TÁRKI has carried out research into topics such as social relationships, social inequalities, women and the family, attitudes to work, unemployment, religiousness, protection of the environment and national identity.

The ISSP archive is the Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne, Germany. The archive is responsible for archiving, integrating data and documentation and for the distribution of the merged international datasets for the Programme. Since 1997 the ZA is supported in the processing of data by the Spanish ISSP partner ASEP, Madrid.  Visit the archive's own pages for detailed information on the ISSP archive. The ISSP Service Guide provides information about search facilities, codebooks and field-questionnaires, data-sets and products available, research, news and also about the archiving rules. You may contact the Zentralarchiv, if you have questions about the aggregated international ISSP datafiles.

Documentation of the ISSP modules is available from the archive's web pages by clicking in the list below.

Data can be ordered from the arcive's order service.

• 1985 Role of Government I
• 1986 Social Networks
• 1987 Social Inequality I
• 1988 Family and Changing Gender Roles I
• 1989 Work Orientations I
• 1990 Role of Government II
• 1991 Religion I
• 1992 Social Inequality II
• 1993 Environment I
• 1994 Family and Changing Gender Roles II
• 1995 National Identity I
• 1996 Role of Government III
• 1997 Work Orientations II
• 1998 Religion II
• 1999 Social Inequality III
• 2000 Environment II
• 2001 Social Relations and Support Systems
• 2002 Family and Changing Gender Roles III
• 2003 National Identity II
• 2004 Citizenship (see questionnaire)
• 2005 Work Orientations III (see questionnaire)
• 2006 Role of Government IV (see questionnaire)
• 2007 Leisure and Sports (see questionnaire)

• Planned:
• 2007 Leisure and Sports
• 2008 Religion III
• 2009 Social Inequality IV

You can browse ISSP publication at ISSP site.